[Public-List] silly questions -

[Dominic Amann]

I try to be in the zone of "there are no stupid questions" - however, the
questions that do irritate me are of the lazy mind variety - as in "this
stupid tool won't work it keeps giving me this error blahdy blah". I walk
up to their desk, and tell them to google the tool name and blahdy blah.
The answer is nearly always in the top three search hits.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Mike Lehman <sail_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Or...
>
> It was like the ton of IT questions I would get as an IT manager.
>
> One of my favorites...
>
> A call from our Executive Director early in the morning (for her that was
> 10:30 a.m.) telling me to re-boot the mail server because she has lost ALL
> of Thursday's mail. She has Wednesday's mail and she has this mornings
> (Friday's) mail but no mail for Thursday, but it was there yesterday!
>
> Funny, none of the other 35 people in the office has called about missing
> mail?
>
> I visited her office, looked over her shoulder, told her to click on the
> "+" sign next to Thursday. "You're brilliant", she exclaimed!
>
> I walked away shaking my head ruefully thinking...dumb bitch!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ~~~_/)_/)~~ Mike Lehman ~~_/)~~~
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: gordon white
> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 8:18 PM
> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] silly questions -
>
>     I get these questions when I go to a show with my race car. The
> inevitable "how fast does it go?" question is not really stupid of
> course, but in a practical sense, are we talking about lap speed on what
> size track? Top speed on what size track? Top straightaway speed on a 15
> mile course?  I tell them the car holds the international 2,000 cc
> displacement (FIA) record of 156.902 mph. That (which is true) generally
> satisfies them.
>
>     Then I get questions about other cars with Ford flathead V-8
> engines. Those engines have three exhaust pipes on each side (not one of
> Henry's better ideas) and they ask how come it's a V-6 with four spark
> plugs on each side?
>
>     The top stupidity is someone looking at a hot-rodded Ford with
> aftermarket heads or intake manifolds made by the Offenhauser Co. I've
> had an auction company that should know better describe the Ford engine
> as an "Offenhauser," which it is not. A true Offenhauser was a
> 4-cylinder twin cam engine that won the Indy 500   28 times.
>
>  - Gordon White
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